GIVE me more love or more disdain ; <br /> The torrid or the frozen zone <br />Bring equal ease unto my pain, <br /> The temperate affords me none : <br />Either extreme of love or hate, <br />Is sweeter than a calm estate. <br /> <br />Give me a storm ; if it be love, <br /> Like Danaë in that golden shower, <br />I swim in pleasure ; if it prove <br /> Disdain, that torrent will devour <br />My vulture-hopes ; and he's possess'd <br />Of heaven, that's but from hell released. <br /> Then crown my joys or cure my pain : <br /> Give me more love or more disdain.<br /><br />Thomas Carew<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-mediocrity-in-love-rejected-2/
